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⌈ Secret Post #2434 ⌋

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[A7X]

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[Stargate Atlantis]

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[Merlin]

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[Audrey Cooper, Twin Peaks]

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[Fire Emblem: Awakening]

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[Avril Lavigne, Tank Girl]

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[Meet the Robinsons]

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[Blood+]

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[Monty Python's Flying Circus]

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[Valentine Morgenstern, The Mortal Instruments]

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In the Dragon Boat Festival that originated in China, it used to be tradition to make a kind of wine by infusing a mineral called realgar in rice wine, due to its bright red colour and red being auspicious. The wine was drunk, and the dredges used to paint patterns on the faces and limbs of kids. Realgar is red because it contains arsenic, so that's. Uh. Not really advised now.

Realgar was also used in medieval Spain and England as a rat poison, and is sometimes still used to kill rats, insects, and weeds.

Speaking of things you shouldn't put on yourself! Europe also used very white makeup made up of white lead (a hydrate of cerussite - I've been auditing several hundred pieces of that, lately), which also contained arsenic on occasions. Guys, DON'T put arsenic on yourself that is very very bad. If you find arsenic-based minerals, like realgar, orpiment, mimetite, or arsenopyrite, wash your hands immediately and only handle with gloves. Bad bad baaaad. (I have audited far too much mimetite...)

And just to round up the 'don't DO that!' trifecta, Italians used to use Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, to dilate their eyes. Indeed, a chemical derived from it, atropine, is actually used widely in opthamology.

Edited 2013-09-01 23:55 (UTC)

And because of lead-based makeup, ladies' eyebrows used to fall out, so they'd catch mice and cut little pieces of mouse skin into fake eyebrows!

More on the makeup thing: they didn't remove makeup, so they'd cake on new layers over and over. More arsenic-y goodness!

Also, there were high levels of retardation among the children of the wealthy in Japan because the kids would reach their mother's assortment of makeup with tons of lead and do what every toddler does when confronted with something new: eat it.

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